US900134A - Garment-button. - Google Patents

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L. D. VAN VALKENBURG.

GARMENT BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. a, 1907.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

LEVI D. VAN VALKENBURG, OFHOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. c, 1908.

Application filed September 3, 1907. Serial No. 391,090.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LEVI D. VAN VALKEN- BURG, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Garment-Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact-description. I

This invention relates to improvements in garment buttons, and more particularly those for use on belt trousers, that is trousers on which the buttons are located on the inside of the waist band.

The object of the invention is to provide the buttons for trousers to be located and fastened on the inside of the waist band 7 thereof, to serve, when desired, as the susv the button,

. ing the form pender buttons, and to also serve whether the suspenders are employed or not as draw-. ers supports.

The lnvention consists in a button having means for attachment thereof on the trousers and provided with a button substantially vertically located on the exposed face of the button and upwardl 0 en relatively to the latter and serviceab e or receiving engagement therewith of the tape 100 s with which drawers are commonly provi ed, whereby such undergarments are not only satisfactorily supported, but whereby the supporting engagement, and the disengagement, thereof relativel T to the trousers may be most convenient y accomplished.

The invention consists in a button constructed as hereinabove described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings ,Figure 1 is a view showing the inside waist band portion of a pair of trousers, an adjacent portion of the trousers, and one of the buttons being provided on theinner side of the trousers band, in enagement with which is one of the suspender loops and also the tape loop of the drawers. Fig. 2 is a sectional v1ew on line 2- 2, Fig. 1. Fig. '3 is a sectional view vertically through drawn on a larger scale; Fig. 4 of the button at its hook or rong provided side. Line 3'3, on Fig. 4 indicates the lane on which the section Flg. 3 is taken. Figs. 5 and 6 are views similar to Figs. 3 and 4, but showing a slight change in the formation, Fig. 5 bein taken on the line 55, Fig. 6. Fig. 7 is a p anview showis a face view of blank from which the im roduced. Figs. 8 and proved buttonis v ll views of another form are sectional and of the button.

' In the drawings,-A represents the button shown as made of thin or sheet metal convexed or cup-shaped, so that the back of the button has the character of a more or less bulky teat with erforations a therethrough for attachment 0 the button on the garment by sewing, while the marginal portions of the buttons are more or less nearly plane. The button is made with an extension B integrally united with a button body at the lower edge portion of the latter and extended upwardly centrally across the face of the button, and free or open at its upper end to constitute an engagement hook.

In Figs. 1 and 2 :1: represents the waist band portion of a pair of trousers, the button A being represented as .sewed on the inner face thereof, y representing one of the suspender loops engaged with the button as usual; w represents an upper portion of .a

air of drawers and 2 represents the tape oop with which the latter is provided,having its supporting engagement with the hook of the button. And in said Fig. 1, the confest without further explanation.

The button is practicably produced from a sheet metal blank, such as representeddn ton, as shown in Fig. 5,- near its extremity;

wardly curved, the hook in this form constitutingia guard against the loop everbeing lifted or working out from engagement, although, of course, for the urposed disengagement, the hook may e readily forwardly s rung.

In the button represented in Figs. 8 and'Q, the hook B is made uite wide, and it has a circular a erture d t ere'through, of a size somewhat arger than the area on the back of tions 0. a are comprised.

.venience and utility of this button-is mani less separated/from. the exposed face of thethis end portion being: outwardly and upv Fig. 7, of circular form having extended from the button within which the sewing perfora- In the button having the parts constructed i and arranged as here shown, the hook constitutes no obstacle to the most convenient sewing of the button onto the garment, it being practicable, as readily understood, to use the needle and thread backward and forward through the aperture d.

I claim:

A garment button comprising a sheet metal body portion having a central perforated teat stamped thereinto and formed with an integral radial tongue bent upon said body, portion from the edge thereof and extending transversely thereacross, said 1 tongue being disposed adjacent the concave face of the teat and serving as a garment sup porting hook.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEVI D. VAN VALKENBURG.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, G. R. DRISOOLL.

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